HOTEL YEOVILLE - www.hotelyeoville.co.za
Hotel Yeoville, is a ground-breaking public art project which, by way of
freshly designed digital interfaces, keys into the diversity of Forced
Migrant, Refugee and South African experiences that make the
controversial suburb of Yeoville such a hot melting pot. This neglected
suburb on the eastern edge of Johannesburg is home to 40 000 people, 70
percent of whom are migrants and refugees from the rest of the African
continent.
Hotel Yeoville aims to address themes of forced migration, the
idiosyncrasies of place and the threat of xenophobia by tapping into the
vital role of the Internet as a diasporic hub. Instead of reporting on
the violent and extreme outcomes of xenophobia, the project explores the
roots of difference, attempting to give public airtime to the most
ordinary, everyday conversations of South Africans, migrants, refugees
and foreigners. The broadest objective is to produce a social map of an
inner city neighborhood (Yeoville) that is home to a largely invisible
community of forced migrants and refugees from all over the African
continent.
The project was developed in partnership with the Forced Migration
Studies Programme, at the University of the Witwatersrand and is driven
by public participation and participatory design processes. Hotel
Yeoville was conceived of and is directed by Johannesburg-based artist
Terry Kurgan. To produce the exhibition in the library she has worked
closely with Tegan Bristow, an artist and interactive digital media
developer and with Alexander Opper and Amir Livneh of Notion Architects
as well as Artist Guylain Lutu.
The project aims on the one hand, to provide useful information, access
to hidden resources, and communication opportunity to the migrant and
refugee community in Yeoville and beyond. On the other, it aims to
connect people and generate content; an online community aimed at
building social networks and starting conversations about important
public and social issues and events. Inhabiting the familiar global
life of the Internet, and produced entirely through public participation
and participatory design processes, the Hotel Yeoville is a project
designed to make people feel at home wherever they find themselves.
Please visit http://www.hotelyeoville.co.za to view some of the
products of our interactive exhibition. There is a slide show embedded
into the homepage which will give you a close up view of what we have
produced.
VISIT:
Yeoville Library
51-53 Raleigh Street
Yeoville, Johannesburg
EXHIBITION HOURS:
Mon to Thurs 1-5pm,
Fri and Sat 9am 1pm
SEE:
www.hotelyeoville.co.za
CONTACT:
Terry Kurgan (project director)
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+27 83 230 1739
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